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JohnB's Games
This site is the hub for the games material I have written over the years. I wrote the first pages of my games site in 2000, and I haven't stopped since. I still have an archive of pre-2000 material on paper, and some of it turns up here, occasionally.
The Legendarium - songs, stories and legends.
Current Games
- Netherworld - Runs on RPoL It is not one of my worlds, but I help out with world design and management.
- Skull & Shackles @ RPoL - In Netherworld. Rerunning a game, that I ran tabletop, it is fascinating how much Play By Post style games differ from Table Top games. Possibly the last game I will ever DM :)
- ** These two have finished, but I keep them here for reference. Eventually, they will move to the 'Old Games' graveyard :)**
- Skull & Shackles - my last Table Top game - now gone into abeyance.
- The Birthday Game - This table-top game took place once a year, over the weekend of my wife's birthday, and was my present to her. Our players arrived on Friday night, and we play through until Sunday lunchtime - as we pretend that we are all young again. At 70, I decided that I was too old and tired for all that. Now, I'll have to think of a new birthday present …
Projects
- Westland - I, sort of, accidentally, started writing a book - or perhaps a short story - or even an epic backstory - this is where it is set - and it is a part of my consolidated world.
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- Finaroka - It has been started twice - both as a stand-alone projects, been pulled about, and partially reworked. Now it needs tidying up, sorting out and the documentation sorted out. TBH, I think it is more administrative, and turning into a base area, more than anything.
- The Drai Shon Archipelago - Very Chaotic area, with pretty constant skirmishing and raiding between the locals, that is complicated by freebooters and treasure seekers from three different 'settler' cultures - and none of them like each other. It will, eventually, be ripe for mayhem, pirating, raiding and full on adventuring with little regard for culture.
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- Thistletop - One of my characters is building a Stronghold in Rise of the Runelords. A real-time project, that is reliant on the speed of the game.
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- QUAD - reimagining an old project, that might happen at some point. Rules for QUick And Dirty roleplaying, which need a lot of work :} I have three variants, and the version is the most basic, but neither of the others are online. But a low priority, that I look at it occasionally, and can't decide where to start, and go back to something else.
Consolidated Game World
House Rules
- Pathfinder House Rules - The collection of house rules, social settings and house interpretations for games I run.
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- Campaign System II - Build Homes, Businesses and Strongholds - based on GP values
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* Library IC documents that support aspects of game play.
Characters and Organizations
Over the years, I have had a number of 'Favourite' characters, some were part of adventuring families - either built in association with other players or I finished up playing more than one generation of the family. Others helped start businesses, companies or organizations.
- Character Directory - Favourite characters that I play, or have played in the past.
- Family Directory - Families that my characters have been a part of.
- Organization Directory - Some run by PCs :)
The Graveyard
Where old games and settings rest quietly - until I need something from them.
- Traveller Classic Traveller - from the old days :)
- Old Game Settings - RP worlds and settings that have been used to host various games.
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- Classless - A project to work a set of rules for a game, based on D&D, that didn't use character classes. It didn't work out as well as I hoped. The system worked, BUT it didn't feel like D&D.
- standard_buildings - floor plans for various buildings. They were built for D&D or Pathfinder games - but they should work for most fantasy worlds.
- My old game site - all sorts of games and rules are linked from here. Much of this work has been tweaked and rewritten as part of my campaign system.
- Old Stuff - This is an even earlier game site! Much of this work has been tweaked and rewritten as part of my campaign system.
- Neverwinter Nights - I worked on a few NWN worlds, most of which never quite got off the ground. However, I was a developer on Champions of Vidor, a persistent world with quite a few regular players, for a few years. Unfortunately, that world died just before the introduction of NWN2 - and I never really got into NWN2 in the same way …
- http://gilar-pw.wikidot.com/ - this was pretty much a solo effort that stayed online for a few months - before NWN2 was released.
Other Stuff
Miscellaneous - a few floor plans.

